The work is intended to describe the AIDS crisis as Ai saw it in New York City įrom 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States. This raincoat has a hole near the waist which is covered with a condom. The group disbanded in 1983, yet Ai participated in regular Stars group shows, The Stars: Ten Years, 1989 (Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong and Taipei), and a retrospective exhibition in Beijing in 2007: Origin Point (Today Art Museum, Beijing).
In 1978, he was one of the founders of the early avant garde art group the " Stars", together with Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Mao Lizi, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Ah Cheng and Qu Leilei. In 1978, Ai enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy and studied animation. Upon Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the family returned to Beijing in 1976. They were subsequently exiled to Shihezi, Xinjiang in 1961, where they lived for 16 years. In 1958, the family was sent to a labour camp in Beidahuang, Heilongjiang, when Ai was one year old. Life Early life and work Īi's father was the Chinese poet Ai Qing, who was denounced during the Anti-Rightist Movement. Īfter being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, in Cambridge, UK, with his family, and in Portugal.
In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display Chinese political and social issues. Īi Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs, and public works. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. He was detained for 81 days without charge. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for "economic crimes". He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of " tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile.
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